their native Roman history. In modern usage, sophism, sophist, and sophistry are used disparagingly. A sophism, or sophistry, is a fallacious argument, especially...

Buridan's Bridge (also known as Sophism 17) is described by Jean Buridan, one of the most famous and influential philosophers of the Late Middle Ages...

were ultimately incorporated into the work of his student, Democritus. Sophism arose from the juxtaposition of physis (nature) and nomos (law). John Burnet...

For the ancient Greeks, “India" (Greek: Ινδία) referred to the polity situated east of Persia and south of the Himalayas (with the exception of Serica)...

the "worse (or weaker) argument appear the better (or stronger)" (see Sophism), and (3) that one could not tell if the gods existed or not (see Agnosticism)...

adjust to changing conditions". Among his better-known works is Economic Sophisms, a series of essays (originally published in the Journal des économistes)...

Relativism is a family of philosophical views which deny claims to objectivity within a particular domain and assert that valuations in that domain are...

The crocodile paradox, also known as crocodile sophism, is a paradox in logic in the same family of paradoxes as the liar paradox. The premise states...

deceptively persuasive. Deliberately specious reasoning can be seen as a form of sophism. The term comes from the late Middle English word meaning 'beautiful',...

drama, Aristophanes presents a caricature of Socrates that leans towards sophism, ridiculing Socrates as an absurd atheist. Socrates in Clouds is interested...